A Lord Nelson is the name given in Royal Navy wardrooms to a poker hand
containing three Jacks. In the British tradition of understatement,
this may or may not bear reference to the fact that Horatio, Lord
Nelson, was a man with one eye, one arm and one ideato beat the
French. The latest and one of the best of the great sailor's
biographies logs in scholarly detail the main tacks of a gusty life
that carried him to the top of the column in London's Trafalgar
Squarenot to mention the...